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June 2, 2008
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- alligators, antibiotics, endangeredspecies, endangeredspeciesact, wildlife
Last week I linked to one good reason for saving endangered plants and wildlife: wonder. But there are more practical reasons as well. As I've noted before, not least of these reasons is the fact that many of the...
March 1, 2008
Posted by Andrew Wetzler in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- arctic, beakedwhale, globalwarming, mercury, seaice, wildlife
For years, scientists have been concerned about the substantial increase of mercury concentrations in Arctic marine mammals such as polar bears, beluga whales, and seals. In some places in Canada, for example, levels of mercury in the tissue of...